Nico, Kathi and Tessa have not seen their flatmate for days. He is holed up in his room and only comes out in unnoticed moments to ransack the refrigerator. While the 'friends' try to contact him with increasingly drastic means, the already smoldering conflicts break out among themselves. Nico's friend Simon doesn't understand how someone manages to get everyone's undivided attention even though he's not there. Then he learns that his jealousy is not entirely unfounded .